Not Quite So Loud Fourth Of July
Jul. 4th, 2025 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
At least when compared to last year, when it was HORRIFICALLY loud most of the night because the people across the street insisted on setting off loads of fireworks -- this year, the worst of it all seems to be happening down the street, and at the time of writing it seems to have mostly tapered off. Like, there's still some booms, but nothing HUGE. Very glad of that -- I didn't need another 4th of July where I spent most of the night terrified that something on our property was going to get set on fire or exploded! *shakehead* Sheesh...why can't fireworks be confined to Sims 4 and Alton Towers end-of-season shows?
Anyway -- there's nothing we can do about the fireworks, so here's my daily write-up. And I'm pleased to report that I actually had a pretty good day:
Tumblr: Well, I didn’t end up doing anything on Valice Multiverse tonight – there was no new activity, and I ended up deleting the ask I told you about yesterday because I couldn’t come up with a good answer for it. But, by contrast, I had a very productive morning over in the drafts for Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler)! I spent the time before lunch –
A) Making my own “[characters] as text posts” picture set with Victor, Alice, and Smiler! What the hell does that mean, I hear you ask? Well, “[characters/fandom] as text posts” is kind of a meme format over on tumblr, where you pair screenshots of your favorite characters from a certain fandom with text posts made by other tumblr users or twitter folks – usually by pasting a screenshot of the post onto the screenshot of the character. That Dead Boys Detectives post I liked a few days ago was one of these, with pictures of the Cat King, Monty the crow-turned-teenager, and Edwin the Dead Boy Detective paired with text posts creator “artemisadore” thought suited them. The thing is, the text posts they used made me think of my Valicer OT3...meaning, today, I spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time saving the pictures they made, snipping the “text post” bits out of them, and pasting said text posts onto appropriate screenshots of my OT3! In order, we had:
I. A tumblr text post about a doctor putting “dresses oddly” next to the poster’s list of psychotic symptoms (with the poster going “Hey, fuck you too”), pasted onto a Sims 4 screenshot of Smiler in one of their more unique outfits XD
II. A tumblr text post about liking a character, then wanting to see him shot five times in a parking lot, pasted onto a Corpse Bride screenshot of Victor having to hold off Barkis’s sword with his barbecue fork in the ending fight
III. And a Twitter text post about how depression becomes annoying instead of sad when you live with it long enough, pasted onto a Alice: Madness Returns screenshot of Alice complaining to Bumby about how her memories make her vomit (though I cropped as much of Bumby himself as I could out)
I’m very proud of the end results. XD Anyway, once I had the pictures done, I threw them into a draft post with some starter text and image alt text – hopefully later this weekend I can polish everything up and get it ready for posting!
B) Working a bit more on the “Teen Valicer Save File” explanatory post – tweaking some wording here and there, and fleshing out my general “outline” for how the save file should go a bit more! Including adding my mental backstory about how the trio are all teens running away from bad living situations in this world, hoping to hide out in a previously-abandoned house in Copperdale just long enough to make it to graduation and adulthood. ...what, you expected me NOT to come up with a new Valicer AU for this game? XD I still need to finish off the section where I go over specific goals for each of the three (like Smiler becoming a Barista in high school/college, then pursuing a life as a traveling potion peddler; Victor becoming a Paranormal Investigator after honing his Medium skill, and perhaps even a Grimtern; and Alice becoming both a famous painter AND author – unless I find something more interesting for her), but everything is coming along nicely so far! Again, hoping I can finish it up sometime this weekend.
So that’s good, at least. :)
Fallout 4: FINALLY got back into this game today (after re-authenticating my Nexus Mods account with Vortex, which was apparently mad at me for not playing for ages – sorry Vortex!) to continue Victor and Ada’s adventures through the Mechanist’s lair! And while I admittedly didn’t get very far into the lair itself in today’s playsession, I did make some major improvements to one member of our party...let me tell you all about it:
A) I kicked things off with Victor and Ada waiting patiently in the big room underneath one of the ceiling-mounted assembly lines, having recently (from their perspective) killed a bunch of robots, checked out a couple of terminals, and – in Victor’s case – eaten some radscorpion chowder for lunch (om nom). With nothing else to do in the immediate area, I had them continue forth: down a short hallway at the end of the room past some of the junkbots they defeated during my last playsession (both of which had lovely ammo on them); around a corner with another little computer workstation on a platform (which provided Victor with a fresh melon from a lunch pail); down to the end of the hall to another shadowed workstation platform (which had a Nuka-Quantum on it, lovely); and finally hanging a right into the Quality Control room for this Evil Secret Robobrain Facility! This place mostly consisted of knocked-over filing cabinets scattered all around the shop (none of which had anything good in them, rude), but there were a few other things of interest:
I. A bunch of duct tape scattered around, which I happily collected – always need that adhesive!
II. A robot workbench shoved in amongst a bunch of computer equipment, which I guess they used to test and modify the robots for QC purposes
III. A skeleton still somehow determinedly clutching a bottle of Nuka-Cola slumped in a desk chair in front of a terminal next to the workbench – Victor relieved them of it, because it sure as hell wasn’t going to do them any good any longer
IV. The terminal itself, which belonged to Lead Engineer Thomas Harkin and contained four reports on maintenance issues – three of them were just fluff about various problems they’d had getting the robobrains to work (such as one’s brain deteriorating very rapidly after sulfuric acid run-off from the dome polishing compound they were using to keep the domes shiny ended up in the bio-gel supporting said brain; another robobrain coming off the assembly line speaking in reverse – Harkin couldn’t find a reason why and thought that the boys upstairs had pulled a prank on him; and some general notes about how, while they’d HOPED to preserve the spinal column along with the brain for these things, they simply couldn’t get the column to hook up to the neural network – hence why all the robobrains are brain-in-jar bots), but one, made after the first batch came back from a field test in very hard shape, noted that the testers had reporter that the robobrains were deliberately misinterpreting instructions – pretending to overthink them and then “rewrite” them for “efficiency.” Which pretty much always resulted in property damage, and sometimes even civilian casualties. Harkin said he couldn’t find anything wrong and would kick the problem back to research. Harkin, I think I can explain the problem very well, actually – THEY’RE ANGRY CRIMINALS YOU FORCED INTO ROBOTIC BODIES TO BE YOUR ROBOT SLAVES. OF COURSE THEY’RE DELIBERATELY FUCKING THINGS UP. *facepalm* Oh, Fallout 4 pre-War America… (Then again, looking at our America, who the fuck am I to judge?)
V. And a holotape from Harkin next to said terminal, talking about how they were on schedule to hit the next robobrain milestone, with one of the scientists saying that the active period between memory wipes for the brains was getting longer; how he’d been informed that the latest modifications to the assembly line had been finished early – and how he hoped that they’d still done their due diligence and that the whole thing wasn’t about to break down again; and how he was a little worried about the “test subjects” (aka the people they were ripping the brains out of) – not about their well-being, mind, but the fact that, while they had plenty right now, eventually the supply would dwindle, and “it’s not like these things grow on trees.” ...Nice guy, Harkin. >( Though, really, the holotape is mostly important because he states his job title and name at the beginning of the tape, and I’ll need that if I want to skip a certain fight…
B) With all the goodies snagged from that room, Victor and Ada thus headed up the stairs at the far end to the second floor of QC, encountering a few more cramped-looking desks (one of which had some Daytripper on it – Victor doesn’t partake, but he can sell it later); some more computer equipment; and some lockers for people to store their stuff. Victor paused a moment by the lockers to answer the call of nature, then continued onward to find another workstation with some chemistry equipment and other bits and bobs (including an aluminum oil can – nice, two things I always need in one convenient package :D), and a tiny balcony area overlooking the assembly line room below –
Riiiight next to a turret. Fortunately it didn’t immediately spot Victor, and I was able to shoot it with the Tesla gun – unfortunately, it took two shots to kill, and Victor shot it from WAAAY too close range and ended up getting his arm and leg broken by the subsequent explosion. *grimace* Ouch. Now, I could have sucked it up and just used one of my many stimpacks to fix him up –
But I’d actually LITERALLY just quicksaved (after Victor had his poop in his bucket), so I just reloaded that, regrabbed the stuff I wanted from the nearby workstation, then made sure to carefully sneak up on the turret, charge up a shot with the Tactical Tesla, and zap the turret to death from a distance with a sneak attack. That worked out MUCH better for Victor’s overall health, and I rewarded myself with a real save right after. :) I had Victor loot the remaining bits of turret for goodies (noting in the process that his carry weight situation was getting a bit dire thanks to my insistence on wearing the Silver Shroud outfit for this mission), then descend into the assembly line room to see what the deal was –
C) Then, after noting all the half-completed integrated swarmbots being trucked around by the ceiling-mounted portion of the line, and stealing some Wonderglue out of a toolbox, I was like “hang on. We’re probably going to get in another fight if we go much further into this room. And I have loads of junk on me, and Ada has loads of junk on her, and we JUST passed a robot workbench. Why not go back and see if there’s anything more I can do to upgrade Ada before we continue?” So I promptly backtracked around to said robot workbench, had Ada stand in the center of it, and checked out what upgrades I could give her –
And well, it turns out there were PLENTY – as long as I had the right materials on me, of course. So, with a few breaks to raid Ada’s inventory for the materials I needed, I kitted her up with:
I. A Head Hydraulic Frame (the best head armor)
II. A Front Voltaic Frame and a Rear Voltaic Frame (the second best front and rear armor – the BEST dropped her carry capacity a little bit, and given my hoarding tendencies, I really needed that to stay at 580)
III. A Left Arm Hydraulic Frame and a Left Hand Hydraulic Frame (the best armor for that arm, which did not affect her carry capacity, yay)
IV. A Right Hand Lightning Gun (because I couldn’t upgrade the armor on that arm any further, and the lightning gun did slightly better damage than her lasers – we’re now Tesla Twinsies!)
V. And a Resistance Field for her torso (which will increase Victor’s damage resistance when she’s near him – it was either that or the stealth field, and I decided that I wanted Victor to have more damage protection over being stealthier)
So now her damage resistance is up to 193 for regular damage, and 169 for energy damage, and her damage output is up to 48 for regular damage, and 30 for energy damage. :D Meaning that she should be a lot more useful in any upcoming fights, and be able to stay in them for longer! Yay!
D) However – after all that tinkering, poor Victor was hungry, thirsty, and UTTERLY exhausted. Unsurprising, since it was 9:19 PM! So once I’d given Ada a bunch of her junk back to make sure Victor could move around normally again, I had him chow down on some crispy squirrel bits and purified water, then set up his tent right in front of the workbench and hit the sack! He woke up at 5:19 AM refreshed and ready to go –
Aaand with the game telling him Abernathy Farm was under attack and he should go help. *shakehead* Game, I’m on the other side of the map – the Abernathys will have to take care of themselves this time! Anyway, he packed up the tent and headed back to the assembly line room, the newly-upgraded Ada at this side –
And THAT is where I left it! Because yes, it had been an hour at that point. :) Maybe not my most EXCITING playsession of FO4, but it was satisfying – felt good to get back into the game. Especially back to crafting stuff – I do enjoy upgrading guns and armor and robots in this game. :D And Ada in particular looks really cool now with all her glowing electric bits from the various Voltatic frames she’s got attached to her. Like, she’s still recognizably ADA, but she’s definitely had a glow-up. :) Next Friday, we proceed across the assembly line room and see if I’m right about there being a fight waiting for us somewhere in there. :P
Writing: Another day playing Fallout 4, another day updating the FO4 Playthrough Progression – and today’s update was quite different from the write-up above, not in what was done, but in what order and who did them. Simply put:
A) Upon arriving in Quality Control, after getting all of his duct tape, Victor asked Ada if she wanted to get upgraded on the robot workbench – and when she said “yes, absolutely,” proceeded to spend the rest of the afternoon and evening upgrading her (with Alice sorted through all their junk to get the materials they needed)
B) And then, while Victor slept, Alice and Ada scouted the area (at his request, since he wasn’t keen on leaving the area unexplored) and ended up being the ones to read through Harkin’s terminal (with Alice noting that his notes on how the robobrains were deliberately misinterpreting orders makes it a lot more likely the Mechanist is an accidental villain), listen to his holotape (Alice wanted to smash it after he referred to the “test subjects” as “things,” but refrained because she knew the tape might be useful for unlocking that elevator back in the security room), and explore the upstairs area (with Ada being the one to kill the turret lurking in that little alcove next to the balcony). They didn’t go any further into the assembly room, though, figuring that if there was a turret there, there might be robots waiting for them too. And they didn’t want to fight them without Victor and his electric shotgun. Victor was like “yes, smart.” XD
So yeah – just another case of me rearranging events to put them in a more logical order for the fanfic-verse! And taking advantage of the fact that Alice and Ada are fully realized people in the fanfic version and thus can do things on their own, instead of Ada being an AI controlled companion who leaves everything to Victor unless otherwise commanded. :P Poor Victor does not have to read every terminal himself in that version of reality! We’ll see if something similar happens with next week’s update, or if that one hews a little closer to the game.
YouTube: Surprisingly enough, doing the write-up of my workout video, below, did not take up my entire evening after we completed Game Night (Life this week – Dad absolutely CRUSHED Mom and me in the first game by getting extremely lucky, and still managed to edge me out in the second by having a slightly more successful career as an accountant than I had as a police officer/teacher). So I had time for one video tonight: “Fantasy Writing Prompt: Dark Lord - The Accidentally Kidnapped TikTok Compilation” by C. M. Alongi! An early series of hers inspired by a writing prompt where a “dark lord” with a strict moral code takes in an abused girl...only to discover he’s been accused of kidnapping a neighboring kingdom’s princess. Whoops. This compilation video featured –
A) The initial meeting between the Princess (age 17) and the Dark Lord, where she revealed that she’d been sent by her parents to kill him! And that she’d gotten past his various minions and goons by sending them to the break room with cupcakes. The Dark Lord was absolutely baffled as to how she’d done that...and THEN learned that the reason she was on this mission was because her parents were annoyed at her not being the “warrior son” they wanted, so they’d sent her off to either do something “worthwhile” for them or die and stop being such a burden. And that she considered herself annoying because they were constantly putting her down. Cue the Dark Lord taking her in, and a time skip to some months later, when a Knight appeared to accuse the Dark Lord of kidnapping the Princess...happily baking in the kitchen
B) The Dark Lord and the Princess explaining the situation to the Knight – basically, that the Princess was here of her own free will, and that the “Dark Lord” who used necromancy to make monsters out of the dead was actually just doing so to protect his borders so that his people (“minions!”) could live in peace and safety. The Knight was initially contemptuous, accusing the Princess of having been brainwashed and saying that her parents were very worried about her –
Cue the princess shutting that shit down by talking about how her parents were always disappointed in her for not being the child they wanted and how they basically sent her here to die to get her out of their hair, and how now they’re just worried about their reputation because she’s still alive and living with the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord looked very pleased with her. :) Unfortunately, this is when the Knight said that, if they didn’t come back with her, there would be war between the two kingdoms…
C) The Dark Lord and the Princess arguing over whether or not the Princess would be going back to her horrible emotionally abusive parents (with the Knight fleeing the room to avoid the tension once the Dark Lord dismissed them), with the back and forth boiling down to:
Princess: “There would be war!”
Dark Lord: “Which I would win.”
Princess: “You don’t know that, and my people would still suffer, so I have to go back”
Dark Lord: “You were absolutely convinced you were useless and annoying thanks to them when you came here, and it took us months to assure you we liked you for you – and you want me to send you BACK to those assholes? No.”
Princess: “You don’t get to make that decision for me – besides, I’d like to say some stuff to their face. And I can always come back if things get really bad again”
Dark Lord: “But you wouldn’t, because that would allow them to say I kidnapped you again and start the war.”
Princess: “...yeah…”
The whole thing finally ended with the Dark Lord letting the Princess go, but saying that if he learned of her getting hurt again, he would bring his wrath down heavily upon her parents; the Princess assuring him that she didn’t think that would be a problem – and a timeskip to the next day, to one of the Dark Lord’s minions discovering that, hey, some of the poisons were missing…
D) The Minion going to report to the Dark Lord about the missing poisons – the strongest and most undetectable ones they have – saying that they haven’t been able to find them for a week. The Dark Lord noted that that meant they’d been missing ever since the Princess left –
Cue the Knight showing up to invite the Dark Lord to the Princess’s coronation as Queen. Because her parents mysteriously died after she returned. Of strange, unexplained simultaneous heart attacks. An hour after eating some of the Princess’s famous cupcakes. XD The people were already calling her an “evil queen” or “dark lady,” which the Knight thought was a little unfair – wait until she killed someone who didn’t deserve it! The Dark Lord, meanwhile, had a good cry about how they grow up so fast. XD
E) And a final note from C. M. Alongi to the people asking if there was going to be any more to the series, revealing that while she felt like she’d wrapped things up nicely on TikTok, she was more than willing to turn this prompt into a written story. Because she’s an author, ya know! So yeah, she said that’d she’d be posting chapters of “Accidentally Kidnapped” on her Patreon whenever she found time in her schedule (this was back when she was still working at a deli along with writing), and once she was done, she’d try to see if she could turn it into an actual book of some description. I’m not sure if that ever happened or not – I certainly see nothing about it on her website – but hey, I’m sure her Patreon fans of two years ago enjoyed the chapters they got!
So that was fun. :) I’ve been meaning to watch some of her other TikTok compilations now that I’m caught up on CaFae Latte! Maybe next I’ll see about watching the little series she made to promote “The Witch Who Trades With Dead...”
Workout: I got on the bike a little later than planned today (beanbags, see below), but I did get in my final workout of the week tonight! And – in keeping with it being Fallout Friday – I did indeed watch the Many A True Nerd Fallout: London video I didn’t have time to watch on Sunday: “Fallout: London - Part 49 - Breaking News!” The continuing adventures of Lady Aria and Mad Jack as they –
A) Headed back to Peckham after their little detour helping the leader of a French ghoul militia plan to blow up Buckingham Palace (Jon was like “as a British person, I feel dirty”) to visit the Land’s End Inn and pick up the “luggage” Smythe had left for her little Wayfarer there! The place proved to be an actual inn, to Jon’s surprise (he was fully expecting a ruin), run by the pleasant Mrs. Fitzwilliam and her helper Henry, who were only too happy to direct Aria to her reserved room. Aria was nice and polite to them in return – even tipping Henry twenty tickets for carrying in her suitcase – then headed into her room, closed the door, and opened the suitcase to see what Angel had for her! She found inside an Angel flag, neatly folded; a briefcase of falsified documents; a letter with instructions for her next mission –
And a flamethrower. Because said mission was to go to a nearby settlement and burn it to the ground. Leaving absolutely no survivors. She then was to hoist the Angel flag above it and given the briefcase to the Tommies to prove to them that the new boogeyman on the block had murdered all those people and give Smythe an excuse to tighten her hold on the country.
...Jon was thrilled about this because he was like, “Great – after helping those French assholes last week, I can now frame them for this atrocity!” XD Aria thus grabbed all the stuff, equipped the flamethrower, and headed straight out of the inn –
Then paused at the entrance, realizing, “oh shit. I just walked past Henry and Mrs. Fitzwilliam while wearing the flamethrower’s fuel backpack. And Smythe informed me there were to be no witnesses.” Cue her turning BACK into the building and using the flamethrower on poor Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Henry. D: Henry died horribly, while Mrs. Fitzwilliam proved to be marked essential and got instead to burn alive TWICE as Aria tried to kill her, with Aria saying she’d be back to do it again if she blabbed to anyone. ...Yeah, I think we can officially say that Aria is not a good person.
B) Headed to the Peckham settlement and, as requested, set it and everyone in it alight! With extreme prejudice! It was a painful massacre – not helped by Jon going “I’m sorry, everyone, but this is for the greater good! Once I take over Angel there will be no more town burnings! ...unless a town annoys me. Or I think it’s funny. ...There will be less town burnings!” XD Oh Jon...anyway, Aria made sure to sweep the town a few times, then – once the last survivor had been killed – raised the Angel flag high above the settlement. The Tommies showed up then, and Aria quickly spun them a sob story about Angel destroying the town to get at a double agent and how she’d fired upon one man, getting him to drop this suitcase full of documents. She needed a little help from drugs to get the Charisma necessary to make sure the Tommies bought the story, granted, but she got there in the end, and the Tommies accepted the fake documents and offered to take her someplace safe to recover. Aria politely refused, and she and Jack walked off content in a job well done! (While all the commenters on the video wondered why Jon didn’t sing a flamethrower song while he was committing all his murder, as he apparently did at one point during a The Last Of Us playthrough.)
C) Headed back to Smythe’s office to check in and get their next mission! Smythe was very pleased with their work, but wanted to make sure everyone in the city learned about Peckham and the boogeyman version of Angel that slaughtered them. So – after assuring Aria that she’d penciled in a date for their actual physical meeting (Jon did not buy it) – she sent her new apprentice over to the big BBM broadcasting studio (where Aria had previously helped that struggling musician finally get his music on the air) to help set up a fake “live” news report telling everyone about Peckham and blaming the fake version of Angel that she’d created to inspire terror in the hearts of the citizenry. This, however, proved to be a bit more difficult than Aria had anticipated, involving:
I. Aria and Jack having to kill a ton of Roundheads who’d dug in around and in the base of the studio, hoping to try and make a difference by stopping Angel’s evil plans – unfortunately for them, they were no match for Aria’s powerful guns and Mad Jack’s flowery axe
II. Aria meeting with a stubborn director who absolutely refused to put Smythe’s propaganda on the air – Aria ATTEMPTED to bribe him, but he stood firm, leading him to be killed by one of Smythe’s other underlings, the main Broadcast Technician
III. Aria being sent out by the Broadcast Technician to retrieve one of the actors needed for the news report – Dickie Anderson, an impressionist playing the part of fake Angel leader “Fyodor Francois” (yes, seriously) in the script Angel had provided – because they couldn’t find him at his house; Aria tracked him down to the nearby Oxford Circus underground station, where he revealed that he was sick of watching London fall apart around him and thus he was getting out while the getting was good. Aria once again did drugs to get her Endurance up a bit so she could convince him that he shouldn’t abandon the city, it needed him, then sent him along to the BBM (he was very smug when he learned they’d finally come crawling to him after rejecting him so many times)
IV. Aria having to deal with the OTHER actor, the newsreader Robert Maxwell-Jones, demanding payment before he played his part – he wanted 1,000 tickets, but Aria was able to use her decent strength to intimidate him into taking 500
V. Aria being sent out again by the Broadcast Technician while they recorded the fake news bulletin to get a replacement Telescreen Transmitted Circuit (the Roundheads having managed to smash up the previous one) so they could actually BROADCAST it – this involved Aria having to travel to the LT Tower, which Jon was very excited about as it was the Fallout: London equivalent of the BT Tower and he really hoped that he could go all the way up to the top and admire the view. Sadly, he was not allowed up the fake lift, and instead had to content himself with killing a bunch of Fifth Columnists with Scaramanga and getting the necessary circuit
VI. And Aria finally returning, replacing the circuit at the Broadcast Technician’s direction, then heading into the local private theater to watch the broadcast, which featured Roger doing a fine job as a stern newsreader telling people that, in light of recent events, all gatherings even for the purposes of entertainment were banned, and Dickie doing a hilariously atrocious French-Russian accent (Jon was slightly surprised to realize that they really were blaming the French!)
And with that, Smythe and Angel tightened their hold on the unfortunate British public even further! Though Jon doesn’t think that they’ve fully thought this through, because the kind of restrictions they’re putting in place ARE going to cause pushback – not to mention, probably inspire a lot of people to try and fight Angel. We’ll see if he’s right or not later...in the meantime, the episode ended with the Broadcast Technician telling Aria that she had better hurry back to Smythe’s office, as she had an urgent message for the Wayfarer. Sunday, we see if this is the fabled face-to-face meeting between Smythe and Aria, and if we’re in for betrayals, hostile takeovers, and a grand finale! :D
Other: We did play beanbags today, thanks to the weather actually being NICE for a change – and while I wasn’t the full-on champ like I was last time, I still had a good day, winning two rounds out of five. Dad claimed the rest, and Mom...blamed her poor throwing on her arm being sore from lifting weights. XD Final scores were me W-W-3-2-2; Dad 2-2-W-W-W; and Mom 3-3-2-3-3. We’ll see if we get in another round tomorrow – don’t think it’s supposed to get hot AND humid until Sunday!
Yeah, pretty solid Friday, honestly! I got everything I wanted to get done, done, and then some. :D But now it's time for me to head to bed -- tomorrow is a Cleaning Saturday AND Dad's birthday, so it's not really in my best interest to sleep too late. I'm not sure if Dad's gonna want to do anything special or not, but I'm hoping that I can at least get another chunk on "The Van Dort Vacancy" written; another video out of my Watch Later; and some playtime on one of my games (more work on the Smiler Caravan in Sims 4, perhaps?). We'll see what happens! Night all!
Anyway -- there's nothing we can do about the fireworks, so here's my daily write-up. And I'm pleased to report that I actually had a pretty good day:
Tumblr: Well, I didn’t end up doing anything on Valice Multiverse tonight – there was no new activity, and I ended up deleting the ask I told you about yesterday because I couldn’t come up with a good answer for it. But, by contrast, I had a very productive morning over in the drafts for Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler)! I spent the time before lunch –
A) Making my own “[characters] as text posts” picture set with Victor, Alice, and Smiler! What the hell does that mean, I hear you ask? Well, “[characters/fandom] as text posts” is kind of a meme format over on tumblr, where you pair screenshots of your favorite characters from a certain fandom with text posts made by other tumblr users or twitter folks – usually by pasting a screenshot of the post onto the screenshot of the character. That Dead Boys Detectives post I liked a few days ago was one of these, with pictures of the Cat King, Monty the crow-turned-teenager, and Edwin the Dead Boy Detective paired with text posts creator “artemisadore” thought suited them. The thing is, the text posts they used made me think of my Valicer OT3...meaning, today, I spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time saving the pictures they made, snipping the “text post” bits out of them, and pasting said text posts onto appropriate screenshots of my OT3! In order, we had:
I. A tumblr text post about a doctor putting “dresses oddly” next to the poster’s list of psychotic symptoms (with the poster going “Hey, fuck you too”), pasted onto a Sims 4 screenshot of Smiler in one of their more unique outfits XD
II. A tumblr text post about liking a character, then wanting to see him shot five times in a parking lot, pasted onto a Corpse Bride screenshot of Victor having to hold off Barkis’s sword with his barbecue fork in the ending fight
III. And a Twitter text post about how depression becomes annoying instead of sad when you live with it long enough, pasted onto a Alice: Madness Returns screenshot of Alice complaining to Bumby about how her memories make her vomit (though I cropped as much of Bumby himself as I could out)
I’m very proud of the end results. XD Anyway, once I had the pictures done, I threw them into a draft post with some starter text and image alt text – hopefully later this weekend I can polish everything up and get it ready for posting!
B) Working a bit more on the “Teen Valicer Save File” explanatory post – tweaking some wording here and there, and fleshing out my general “outline” for how the save file should go a bit more! Including adding my mental backstory about how the trio are all teens running away from bad living situations in this world, hoping to hide out in a previously-abandoned house in Copperdale just long enough to make it to graduation and adulthood. ...what, you expected me NOT to come up with a new Valicer AU for this game? XD I still need to finish off the section where I go over specific goals for each of the three (like Smiler becoming a Barista in high school/college, then pursuing a life as a traveling potion peddler; Victor becoming a Paranormal Investigator after honing his Medium skill, and perhaps even a Grimtern; and Alice becoming both a famous painter AND author – unless I find something more interesting for her), but everything is coming along nicely so far! Again, hoping I can finish it up sometime this weekend.
So that’s good, at least. :)
Fallout 4: FINALLY got back into this game today (after re-authenticating my Nexus Mods account with Vortex, which was apparently mad at me for not playing for ages – sorry Vortex!) to continue Victor and Ada’s adventures through the Mechanist’s lair! And while I admittedly didn’t get very far into the lair itself in today’s playsession, I did make some major improvements to one member of our party...let me tell you all about it:
A) I kicked things off with Victor and Ada waiting patiently in the big room underneath one of the ceiling-mounted assembly lines, having recently (from their perspective) killed a bunch of robots, checked out a couple of terminals, and – in Victor’s case – eaten some radscorpion chowder for lunch (om nom). With nothing else to do in the immediate area, I had them continue forth: down a short hallway at the end of the room past some of the junkbots they defeated during my last playsession (both of which had lovely ammo on them); around a corner with another little computer workstation on a platform (which provided Victor with a fresh melon from a lunch pail); down to the end of the hall to another shadowed workstation platform (which had a Nuka-Quantum on it, lovely); and finally hanging a right into the Quality Control room for this Evil Secret Robobrain Facility! This place mostly consisted of knocked-over filing cabinets scattered all around the shop (none of which had anything good in them, rude), but there were a few other things of interest:
I. A bunch of duct tape scattered around, which I happily collected – always need that adhesive!
II. A robot workbench shoved in amongst a bunch of computer equipment, which I guess they used to test and modify the robots for QC purposes
III. A skeleton still somehow determinedly clutching a bottle of Nuka-Cola slumped in a desk chair in front of a terminal next to the workbench – Victor relieved them of it, because it sure as hell wasn’t going to do them any good any longer
IV. The terminal itself, which belonged to Lead Engineer Thomas Harkin and contained four reports on maintenance issues – three of them were just fluff about various problems they’d had getting the robobrains to work (such as one’s brain deteriorating very rapidly after sulfuric acid run-off from the dome polishing compound they were using to keep the domes shiny ended up in the bio-gel supporting said brain; another robobrain coming off the assembly line speaking in reverse – Harkin couldn’t find a reason why and thought that the boys upstairs had pulled a prank on him; and some general notes about how, while they’d HOPED to preserve the spinal column along with the brain for these things, they simply couldn’t get the column to hook up to the neural network – hence why all the robobrains are brain-in-jar bots), but one, made after the first batch came back from a field test in very hard shape, noted that the testers had reporter that the robobrains were deliberately misinterpreting instructions – pretending to overthink them and then “rewrite” them for “efficiency.” Which pretty much always resulted in property damage, and sometimes even civilian casualties. Harkin said he couldn’t find anything wrong and would kick the problem back to research. Harkin, I think I can explain the problem very well, actually – THEY’RE ANGRY CRIMINALS YOU FORCED INTO ROBOTIC BODIES TO BE YOUR ROBOT SLAVES. OF COURSE THEY’RE DELIBERATELY FUCKING THINGS UP. *facepalm* Oh, Fallout 4 pre-War America… (Then again, looking at our America, who the fuck am I to judge?)
V. And a holotape from Harkin next to said terminal, talking about how they were on schedule to hit the next robobrain milestone, with one of the scientists saying that the active period between memory wipes for the brains was getting longer; how he’d been informed that the latest modifications to the assembly line had been finished early – and how he hoped that they’d still done their due diligence and that the whole thing wasn’t about to break down again; and how he was a little worried about the “test subjects” (aka the people they were ripping the brains out of) – not about their well-being, mind, but the fact that, while they had plenty right now, eventually the supply would dwindle, and “it’s not like these things grow on trees.” ...Nice guy, Harkin. >( Though, really, the holotape is mostly important because he states his job title and name at the beginning of the tape, and I’ll need that if I want to skip a certain fight…
B) With all the goodies snagged from that room, Victor and Ada thus headed up the stairs at the far end to the second floor of QC, encountering a few more cramped-looking desks (one of which had some Daytripper on it – Victor doesn’t partake, but he can sell it later); some more computer equipment; and some lockers for people to store their stuff. Victor paused a moment by the lockers to answer the call of nature, then continued onward to find another workstation with some chemistry equipment and other bits and bobs (including an aluminum oil can – nice, two things I always need in one convenient package :D), and a tiny balcony area overlooking the assembly line room below –
Riiiight next to a turret. Fortunately it didn’t immediately spot Victor, and I was able to shoot it with the Tesla gun – unfortunately, it took two shots to kill, and Victor shot it from WAAAY too close range and ended up getting his arm and leg broken by the subsequent explosion. *grimace* Ouch. Now, I could have sucked it up and just used one of my many stimpacks to fix him up –
But I’d actually LITERALLY just quicksaved (after Victor had his poop in his bucket), so I just reloaded that, regrabbed the stuff I wanted from the nearby workstation, then made sure to carefully sneak up on the turret, charge up a shot with the Tactical Tesla, and zap the turret to death from a distance with a sneak attack. That worked out MUCH better for Victor’s overall health, and I rewarded myself with a real save right after. :) I had Victor loot the remaining bits of turret for goodies (noting in the process that his carry weight situation was getting a bit dire thanks to my insistence on wearing the Silver Shroud outfit for this mission), then descend into the assembly line room to see what the deal was –
C) Then, after noting all the half-completed integrated swarmbots being trucked around by the ceiling-mounted portion of the line, and stealing some Wonderglue out of a toolbox, I was like “hang on. We’re probably going to get in another fight if we go much further into this room. And I have loads of junk on me, and Ada has loads of junk on her, and we JUST passed a robot workbench. Why not go back and see if there’s anything more I can do to upgrade Ada before we continue?” So I promptly backtracked around to said robot workbench, had Ada stand in the center of it, and checked out what upgrades I could give her –
And well, it turns out there were PLENTY – as long as I had the right materials on me, of course. So, with a few breaks to raid Ada’s inventory for the materials I needed, I kitted her up with:
I. A Head Hydraulic Frame (the best head armor)
II. A Front Voltaic Frame and a Rear Voltaic Frame (the second best front and rear armor – the BEST dropped her carry capacity a little bit, and given my hoarding tendencies, I really needed that to stay at 580)
III. A Left Arm Hydraulic Frame and a Left Hand Hydraulic Frame (the best armor for that arm, which did not affect her carry capacity, yay)
IV. A Right Hand Lightning Gun (because I couldn’t upgrade the armor on that arm any further, and the lightning gun did slightly better damage than her lasers – we’re now Tesla Twinsies!)
V. And a Resistance Field for her torso (which will increase Victor’s damage resistance when she’s near him – it was either that or the stealth field, and I decided that I wanted Victor to have more damage protection over being stealthier)
So now her damage resistance is up to 193 for regular damage, and 169 for energy damage, and her damage output is up to 48 for regular damage, and 30 for energy damage. :D Meaning that she should be a lot more useful in any upcoming fights, and be able to stay in them for longer! Yay!
D) However – after all that tinkering, poor Victor was hungry, thirsty, and UTTERLY exhausted. Unsurprising, since it was 9:19 PM! So once I’d given Ada a bunch of her junk back to make sure Victor could move around normally again, I had him chow down on some crispy squirrel bits and purified water, then set up his tent right in front of the workbench and hit the sack! He woke up at 5:19 AM refreshed and ready to go –
Aaand with the game telling him Abernathy Farm was under attack and he should go help. *shakehead* Game, I’m on the other side of the map – the Abernathys will have to take care of themselves this time! Anyway, he packed up the tent and headed back to the assembly line room, the newly-upgraded Ada at this side –
And THAT is where I left it! Because yes, it had been an hour at that point. :) Maybe not my most EXCITING playsession of FO4, but it was satisfying – felt good to get back into the game. Especially back to crafting stuff – I do enjoy upgrading guns and armor and robots in this game. :D And Ada in particular looks really cool now with all her glowing electric bits from the various Voltatic frames she’s got attached to her. Like, she’s still recognizably ADA, but she’s definitely had a glow-up. :) Next Friday, we proceed across the assembly line room and see if I’m right about there being a fight waiting for us somewhere in there. :P
Writing: Another day playing Fallout 4, another day updating the FO4 Playthrough Progression – and today’s update was quite different from the write-up above, not in what was done, but in what order and who did them. Simply put:
A) Upon arriving in Quality Control, after getting all of his duct tape, Victor asked Ada if she wanted to get upgraded on the robot workbench – and when she said “yes, absolutely,” proceeded to spend the rest of the afternoon and evening upgrading her (with Alice sorted through all their junk to get the materials they needed)
B) And then, while Victor slept, Alice and Ada scouted the area (at his request, since he wasn’t keen on leaving the area unexplored) and ended up being the ones to read through Harkin’s terminal (with Alice noting that his notes on how the robobrains were deliberately misinterpreting orders makes it a lot more likely the Mechanist is an accidental villain), listen to his holotape (Alice wanted to smash it after he referred to the “test subjects” as “things,” but refrained because she knew the tape might be useful for unlocking that elevator back in the security room), and explore the upstairs area (with Ada being the one to kill the turret lurking in that little alcove next to the balcony). They didn’t go any further into the assembly room, though, figuring that if there was a turret there, there might be robots waiting for them too. And they didn’t want to fight them without Victor and his electric shotgun. Victor was like “yes, smart.” XD
So yeah – just another case of me rearranging events to put them in a more logical order for the fanfic-verse! And taking advantage of the fact that Alice and Ada are fully realized people in the fanfic version and thus can do things on their own, instead of Ada being an AI controlled companion who leaves everything to Victor unless otherwise commanded. :P Poor Victor does not have to read every terminal himself in that version of reality! We’ll see if something similar happens with next week’s update, or if that one hews a little closer to the game.
YouTube: Surprisingly enough, doing the write-up of my workout video, below, did not take up my entire evening after we completed Game Night (Life this week – Dad absolutely CRUSHED Mom and me in the first game by getting extremely lucky, and still managed to edge me out in the second by having a slightly more successful career as an accountant than I had as a police officer/teacher). So I had time for one video tonight: “Fantasy Writing Prompt: Dark Lord - The Accidentally Kidnapped TikTok Compilation” by C. M. Alongi! An early series of hers inspired by a writing prompt where a “dark lord” with a strict moral code takes in an abused girl...only to discover he’s been accused of kidnapping a neighboring kingdom’s princess. Whoops. This compilation video featured –
A) The initial meeting between the Princess (age 17) and the Dark Lord, where she revealed that she’d been sent by her parents to kill him! And that she’d gotten past his various minions and goons by sending them to the break room with cupcakes. The Dark Lord was absolutely baffled as to how she’d done that...and THEN learned that the reason she was on this mission was because her parents were annoyed at her not being the “warrior son” they wanted, so they’d sent her off to either do something “worthwhile” for them or die and stop being such a burden. And that she considered herself annoying because they were constantly putting her down. Cue the Dark Lord taking her in, and a time skip to some months later, when a Knight appeared to accuse the Dark Lord of kidnapping the Princess...happily baking in the kitchen
B) The Dark Lord and the Princess explaining the situation to the Knight – basically, that the Princess was here of her own free will, and that the “Dark Lord” who used necromancy to make monsters out of the dead was actually just doing so to protect his borders so that his people (“minions!”) could live in peace and safety. The Knight was initially contemptuous, accusing the Princess of having been brainwashed and saying that her parents were very worried about her –
Cue the princess shutting that shit down by talking about how her parents were always disappointed in her for not being the child they wanted and how they basically sent her here to die to get her out of their hair, and how now they’re just worried about their reputation because she’s still alive and living with the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord looked very pleased with her. :) Unfortunately, this is when the Knight said that, if they didn’t come back with her, there would be war between the two kingdoms…
C) The Dark Lord and the Princess arguing over whether or not the Princess would be going back to her horrible emotionally abusive parents (with the Knight fleeing the room to avoid the tension once the Dark Lord dismissed them), with the back and forth boiling down to:
Princess: “There would be war!”
Dark Lord: “Which I would win.”
Princess: “You don’t know that, and my people would still suffer, so I have to go back”
Dark Lord: “You were absolutely convinced you were useless and annoying thanks to them when you came here, and it took us months to assure you we liked you for you – and you want me to send you BACK to those assholes? No.”
Princess: “You don’t get to make that decision for me – besides, I’d like to say some stuff to their face. And I can always come back if things get really bad again”
Dark Lord: “But you wouldn’t, because that would allow them to say I kidnapped you again and start the war.”
Princess: “...yeah…”
The whole thing finally ended with the Dark Lord letting the Princess go, but saying that if he learned of her getting hurt again, he would bring his wrath down heavily upon her parents; the Princess assuring him that she didn’t think that would be a problem – and a timeskip to the next day, to one of the Dark Lord’s minions discovering that, hey, some of the poisons were missing…
D) The Minion going to report to the Dark Lord about the missing poisons – the strongest and most undetectable ones they have – saying that they haven’t been able to find them for a week. The Dark Lord noted that that meant they’d been missing ever since the Princess left –
Cue the Knight showing up to invite the Dark Lord to the Princess’s coronation as Queen. Because her parents mysteriously died after she returned. Of strange, unexplained simultaneous heart attacks. An hour after eating some of the Princess’s famous cupcakes. XD The people were already calling her an “evil queen” or “dark lady,” which the Knight thought was a little unfair – wait until she killed someone who didn’t deserve it! The Dark Lord, meanwhile, had a good cry about how they grow up so fast. XD
E) And a final note from C. M. Alongi to the people asking if there was going to be any more to the series, revealing that while she felt like she’d wrapped things up nicely on TikTok, she was more than willing to turn this prompt into a written story. Because she’s an author, ya know! So yeah, she said that’d she’d be posting chapters of “Accidentally Kidnapped” on her Patreon whenever she found time in her schedule (this was back when she was still working at a deli along with writing), and once she was done, she’d try to see if she could turn it into an actual book of some description. I’m not sure if that ever happened or not – I certainly see nothing about it on her website – but hey, I’m sure her Patreon fans of two years ago enjoyed the chapters they got!
So that was fun. :) I’ve been meaning to watch some of her other TikTok compilations now that I’m caught up on CaFae Latte! Maybe next I’ll see about watching the little series she made to promote “The Witch Who Trades With Dead...”
Workout: I got on the bike a little later than planned today (beanbags, see below), but I did get in my final workout of the week tonight! And – in keeping with it being Fallout Friday – I did indeed watch the Many A True Nerd Fallout: London video I didn’t have time to watch on Sunday: “Fallout: London - Part 49 - Breaking News!” The continuing adventures of Lady Aria and Mad Jack as they –
A) Headed back to Peckham after their little detour helping the leader of a French ghoul militia plan to blow up Buckingham Palace (Jon was like “as a British person, I feel dirty”) to visit the Land’s End Inn and pick up the “luggage” Smythe had left for her little Wayfarer there! The place proved to be an actual inn, to Jon’s surprise (he was fully expecting a ruin), run by the pleasant Mrs. Fitzwilliam and her helper Henry, who were only too happy to direct Aria to her reserved room. Aria was nice and polite to them in return – even tipping Henry twenty tickets for carrying in her suitcase – then headed into her room, closed the door, and opened the suitcase to see what Angel had for her! She found inside an Angel flag, neatly folded; a briefcase of falsified documents; a letter with instructions for her next mission –
And a flamethrower. Because said mission was to go to a nearby settlement and burn it to the ground. Leaving absolutely no survivors. She then was to hoist the Angel flag above it and given the briefcase to the Tommies to prove to them that the new boogeyman on the block had murdered all those people and give Smythe an excuse to tighten her hold on the country.
...Jon was thrilled about this because he was like, “Great – after helping those French assholes last week, I can now frame them for this atrocity!” XD Aria thus grabbed all the stuff, equipped the flamethrower, and headed straight out of the inn –
Then paused at the entrance, realizing, “oh shit. I just walked past Henry and Mrs. Fitzwilliam while wearing the flamethrower’s fuel backpack. And Smythe informed me there were to be no witnesses.” Cue her turning BACK into the building and using the flamethrower on poor Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Henry. D: Henry died horribly, while Mrs. Fitzwilliam proved to be marked essential and got instead to burn alive TWICE as Aria tried to kill her, with Aria saying she’d be back to do it again if she blabbed to anyone. ...Yeah, I think we can officially say that Aria is not a good person.
B) Headed to the Peckham settlement and, as requested, set it and everyone in it alight! With extreme prejudice! It was a painful massacre – not helped by Jon going “I’m sorry, everyone, but this is for the greater good! Once I take over Angel there will be no more town burnings! ...unless a town annoys me. Or I think it’s funny. ...There will be less town burnings!” XD Oh Jon...anyway, Aria made sure to sweep the town a few times, then – once the last survivor had been killed – raised the Angel flag high above the settlement. The Tommies showed up then, and Aria quickly spun them a sob story about Angel destroying the town to get at a double agent and how she’d fired upon one man, getting him to drop this suitcase full of documents. She needed a little help from drugs to get the Charisma necessary to make sure the Tommies bought the story, granted, but she got there in the end, and the Tommies accepted the fake documents and offered to take her someplace safe to recover. Aria politely refused, and she and Jack walked off content in a job well done! (While all the commenters on the video wondered why Jon didn’t sing a flamethrower song while he was committing all his murder, as he apparently did at one point during a The Last Of Us playthrough.)
C) Headed back to Smythe’s office to check in and get their next mission! Smythe was very pleased with their work, but wanted to make sure everyone in the city learned about Peckham and the boogeyman version of Angel that slaughtered them. So – after assuring Aria that she’d penciled in a date for their actual physical meeting (Jon did not buy it) – she sent her new apprentice over to the big BBM broadcasting studio (where Aria had previously helped that struggling musician finally get his music on the air) to help set up a fake “live” news report telling everyone about Peckham and blaming the fake version of Angel that she’d created to inspire terror in the hearts of the citizenry. This, however, proved to be a bit more difficult than Aria had anticipated, involving:
I. Aria and Jack having to kill a ton of Roundheads who’d dug in around and in the base of the studio, hoping to try and make a difference by stopping Angel’s evil plans – unfortunately for them, they were no match for Aria’s powerful guns and Mad Jack’s flowery axe
II. Aria meeting with a stubborn director who absolutely refused to put Smythe’s propaganda on the air – Aria ATTEMPTED to bribe him, but he stood firm, leading him to be killed by one of Smythe’s other underlings, the main Broadcast Technician
III. Aria being sent out by the Broadcast Technician to retrieve one of the actors needed for the news report – Dickie Anderson, an impressionist playing the part of fake Angel leader “Fyodor Francois” (yes, seriously) in the script Angel had provided – because they couldn’t find him at his house; Aria tracked him down to the nearby Oxford Circus underground station, where he revealed that he was sick of watching London fall apart around him and thus he was getting out while the getting was good. Aria once again did drugs to get her Endurance up a bit so she could convince him that he shouldn’t abandon the city, it needed him, then sent him along to the BBM (he was very smug when he learned they’d finally come crawling to him after rejecting him so many times)
IV. Aria having to deal with the OTHER actor, the newsreader Robert Maxwell-Jones, demanding payment before he played his part – he wanted 1,000 tickets, but Aria was able to use her decent strength to intimidate him into taking 500
V. Aria being sent out again by the Broadcast Technician while they recorded the fake news bulletin to get a replacement Telescreen Transmitted Circuit (the Roundheads having managed to smash up the previous one) so they could actually BROADCAST it – this involved Aria having to travel to the LT Tower, which Jon was very excited about as it was the Fallout: London equivalent of the BT Tower and he really hoped that he could go all the way up to the top and admire the view. Sadly, he was not allowed up the fake lift, and instead had to content himself with killing a bunch of Fifth Columnists with Scaramanga and getting the necessary circuit
VI. And Aria finally returning, replacing the circuit at the Broadcast Technician’s direction, then heading into the local private theater to watch the broadcast, which featured Roger doing a fine job as a stern newsreader telling people that, in light of recent events, all gatherings even for the purposes of entertainment were banned, and Dickie doing a hilariously atrocious French-Russian accent (Jon was slightly surprised to realize that they really were blaming the French!)
And with that, Smythe and Angel tightened their hold on the unfortunate British public even further! Though Jon doesn’t think that they’ve fully thought this through, because the kind of restrictions they’re putting in place ARE going to cause pushback – not to mention, probably inspire a lot of people to try and fight Angel. We’ll see if he’s right or not later...in the meantime, the episode ended with the Broadcast Technician telling Aria that she had better hurry back to Smythe’s office, as she had an urgent message for the Wayfarer. Sunday, we see if this is the fabled face-to-face meeting between Smythe and Aria, and if we’re in for betrayals, hostile takeovers, and a grand finale! :D
Other: We did play beanbags today, thanks to the weather actually being NICE for a change – and while I wasn’t the full-on champ like I was last time, I still had a good day, winning two rounds out of five. Dad claimed the rest, and Mom...blamed her poor throwing on her arm being sore from lifting weights. XD Final scores were me W-W-3-2-2; Dad 2-2-W-W-W; and Mom 3-3-2-3-3. We’ll see if we get in another round tomorrow – don’t think it’s supposed to get hot AND humid until Sunday!
Yeah, pretty solid Friday, honestly! I got everything I wanted to get done, done, and then some. :D But now it's time for me to head to bed -- tomorrow is a Cleaning Saturday AND Dad's birthday, so it's not really in my best interest to sleep too late. I'm not sure if Dad's gonna want to do anything special or not, but I'm hoping that I can at least get another chunk on "The Van Dort Vacancy" written; another video out of my Watch Later; and some playtime on one of my games (more work on the Smiler Caravan in Sims 4, perhaps?). We'll see what happens! Night all!
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Date: 2025-07-06 12:39 am (UTC)Oh, BTW, while I'm here, I've been meaning to ask you -- do you mind if I post your "Smiler in Secundus" birthday gift fic to my tumblr? Like, I know it's my fic, but it was also a gift for you, so it feels polite to ask before I do that. :P
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